Famous Quotes

"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."

Carlos Fuentes on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Carlos Fuentes

• "Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

• "I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family."

• "You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican."

• "Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."

• "I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination."